Burbage v. Squires
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 21-- APPEAL PROM BRECKINRIDGE CIRCUIT COURT. cited 13 B. Mon., 237; Civil Code, secs. 849, 161, 827, 145, 739, 824, 360,153, 120,121, 123, 690, 691; 9 Dana, 64; 4 J. J. Mar., 242 ; 4 Bibb, 416; 5 Dana, 596; 7 Dana, 168; 15 B. Mon., 48; Taylor's ex'r vs. Berry, MS. opin., Sept. 1855 ; Rev. Stat., 214 ; sess. acts 1857-8, page 35. cited Civil Code, secs. 827, 29, 16, 3, 4, 65, 849 ; 4 Mon., 413; 5 Mon., 262 ; 7 Dana, 168 ; 2 B. Mon., 264.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE WOOD
DELIVERED THE OPINION OP THE COURT:
The counsel for appellee insists, in argument, that this court has no jurisdiction. We must therefore determine first wheth*78er the court has jurisdiction or not. This was a proceeding commenced originally by warrant before a justice of the peace. The sum claimed in the warrant was twenty-five dollars.
We find in the record a statement, in writing, which appears to have been filed with the justice, and which purports to set forth the facts on which the action was founded. This written statement was filed, no doubt, in obedience to the requirement…
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